jacobite
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- jacobites (100.0%)
Usage examples for jacobite:
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They had taken part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fled abroad on its failure.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II." – John Morley -
Another Jacobite song was the cause of an amusing incident at Edinburgh.
"Charles Dickens and Music" – James T. Lightwood -
Dundee and his Highlanders were victorious, but Dundee himself was killed in the battle, and his death proved a fatal blow to the Jacobite cause.
"An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)" – Robert S. Rait -
Mr. Lloyd and his lady were with us, and Mr. Carvel told his old stories of the time of the First George, many of which I can even now repeat: how he and two other collegians fought half a dozen Mohocks in Norfolk Street, and fairly beat them; and how he discovered by chance a Jacobite refugee in Greenwich, and what came of it; nor did he forget that oft- told episode with Dean Swift.
"Richard Carvel, Complete" – Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009